In the Congo Basin live many of Africa’s most iconic animals — elephants, hippos, mountain gorillas and buffaloes. Additionally, 1,000 types of birds and 700 kinds of fish call this their home, coexisting with the people who’ve…

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Image credit: nailbender /Flickr In the face of deforestation and pollution, civil war and a rampant bushmeat trade , the gorillas of the Congo Basin, an area nearly 1.5 million square miles in size, have persisted—and in some limited cases even